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west-weard

  • adverb
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west-weard, adv.
Westward, in a westerly direction
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  • Sume (adverbs) synd localia . . . westweard

    occidentem uersum

    ,
      Ælfc. Gr. 38 ; Zup. 225, 10.

  • Fór se here of ðæm eástríce westweard,

      Chr. 893; Erl. 88, 22 : 1052 ; Erl. 183, 15.

  • Ðá hé ðá hámweard tó ðære ié com, ðe hé ǽr westweard (

    when marching westward

    ) hét ða ofermǽtan brycge ofer gewyrcan,
      Ors. 2, 5 ; Swt. 84, 3.

  • Ðás seofon tunglan gáð ǽfre eástwerd ongeán ða heofenan ; ac seó heofen[e] is strengre and ábrét hí ealle under*-*bæc westweard mid hire ryne; and is for ðí mannum geþúht swilce séo sunne and ða foresǽdan tunglan gangon westweard. Sóð ðæt is westweard hí gáð unþances,

      Boutr. Scrd. 18, 39-42.

  • Ða seofon steorran . . . gangende eástan westweard,

      Lchdm. iii. 270, 26.

  • Affrica onginð eástan westwerd (

    starting from the east and coming westward

    ) fram Egyptum æt ðære eé ðe man Nilus hǽt,
      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 24, 32.
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v.  eást-weard.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “west-weard.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/35476.

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